LawFuel’s 2022 Lawyer of the Year is the battling ‘loophole lawyer’ who fought to get Charlotte Bellis into the country under the MIQ lottery system.
Article source: Trophy.com Billable targets measure output, but they fail to capture the internal behaviors that keep a firm running smoothly. High attrition rates cost practice groups millions in lost productivity and recruitment fees. Industry data shows that law firm associate turnover costs between $200,000 and $500,000 per departure, making cultural preservation a financial priority.
Samantha Barrass, the suspended chief executive of New Zealand’s Financial Markets Authority (FMA), is seeking to overturn her suspension and be reinstated to her role, with a hearing scheduled before the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) in mid-September. Barrass, who had already announced she would not seek reappointment when her term ends in January 2027 due
Kirkland & Ellis, the first law firm in history to break $10 billion in revenue, is putting half a billion dollars of its own money into a proprietary AI platform. That’s a big bold move (what else would you expect from Kirklands?) which is not to keep up with Harvey or Legora, or to shave a few hours off due diligence. It’s something far more valuable.
The plan is to bottle the firm’s “collective intelligence” and put it in every lawyer’s hands and, in the process, lean hard into the long-predicted death of the billable hour.
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Key Points: Clifford Chance has asked the US District Court for the Southern District of New York to dismiss a declaratory-judgment action brought by former partners Clifford Cone and Michael Sabin and compel arbitration in Geneva, Switzerland, over the firm’s attempted recovery of almost $5.76 million in prior compensation. The firm described the lawsuit as
Legal tech heavyweight Smkeball has rolled out a major global brand refresh, rallying around a singular ethos: “People-Law.” After 14 years in the practice management space, the company isn’t changing its core software or leadership, but it’s changing how it tells its story, taking direct aim at the administrative burnout plaguing community-level practitioners. What Is
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Article source: Hiller Comerford Injury & Disability Law, NY Image source Getting hit by a car is scary enough. Getting blamed for it afterward feels even worse. In Orchard Park, insurance adjusters often try to shift fault onto the pedestrian to cut down what they have to pay. This happens even when the driver ran
Article source: Jonathan Perkins Injury Lawyers, MA Image source You slipped on a wet floor, tripped on a broken stair, or fell where a light had burned out. The property owner shrugs and says nobody knew about the problem. That answer sounds final, but a stack of paperwork sitting in a back office often tells
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Article source: De Castroverde Law Firm, NV Photo Credit You cruise down Interstate 15 near the Spaghetti Bowl interchange when an eighty-thousand-pound commercial semi-truck crushes your sedan against the concrete median. The violent impact shatters your driver-side door, deploys your airbags, and snaps your collarbone. Paramedics rush you straight to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center.
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Hotshot Collaborates with Litera on Legal Training as Firms Rethink Talent Development in the Age of AI Lawyers and firms will soon be able to access their Hotshot subscriptions and library of 400+ courses through Litera’s CE Manager, giving firms a connected way to develop talent and manage compliance CHICAGO and NEW YORK – Aug.
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LITTLER ANNOUNCES LEADERSHIP APPOINTMENTS IN LONG ISLAND AND SAN JOSE TO DRIVE GROWTH AND CLIENT SERVICE LONG ISLAND, N.Y./SAN JOSE, Calif. (August 19, 2026) – Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, has appointed William H. Ng and Marlene S. Muraco as office managing shareholders (OMS). Ng takes the reins from longtime OMS John T.
